Figure 33. — Deadening cull 

 hardwoods makes more space avail- 

 able to thrifty merchantable growth. 

 (Tenn. Conservation Dept. photo.) 



pine sawlogs are cut. A year's accumulation of 

 usable pine tops in Tennessee's forests is equal to 

 about three-tenths of the State's pulpwood production. 

 Another opportunity for extending the resource lies in 

 using chipped sawmill slabs and edgings for pulp 

 and hardboard. 



Using each tree cut for the most valuable product 

 or products it will yield will also help to extend the 

 available resource. A case in point is the desirability 

 of shifting the bulk of the fuelwood — which amounts 

 to more than one-third of the total annual cut — to 

 such widely available sources as cull trees, tops of 



trees cut for other uses, and sawmill slabs that ar 

 now not fully utilized. This would materially reduce 

 the cutting pressure on Tennessee's forests and permit 

 the use of growing stock for more valuable products. 

 Similarly, hardwood timber suitable for high-quality 

 products such as veneer logs need not be cut for saw- 

 logs or other lower value products. One way of at- 

 taining this latter objective is by integrated logging, 

 i. e., harvesting several products during a logging 

 operation so that the various portions of the cut are 

 channeled to those uses that will insure the greatest 

 economic return. 



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